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Show PREHISTORIC the pinna le like tower beneath fall of its high i j z dinosaurs € 3 wai was fighting weight of two struggling, which people of mncourse ist by witnessed filled Grant park from the Art instlcompletely tute to the Illinois Central depot Awtul combat between gigantic dinosaur and huge ty- rannisaurus on Grant park results in the destruction of (he immense buildings along Michigan avenue. National government sends s Havoc warships sight seers diplodocus was seen dinosaur at once the All where a great south, the to turn uneasily toward be heard could avenue in Michigan commotion of spe ctators thousands the eyes curious With all at once and sensation, new turned to seek the a Look there arose the gener: il exclamation, he street on two le gs! that thing coming down ax was not so large arrived beast The newly the dinosaur diplodocus which had been feeding In than eighty not more Its body was park Grant in the boult north advancing It was feet high kangaroo like with moving a rapid pace, vard at each spring cov jumps on Its pow® rful hind legs, than larger was Its head feet ering a hundred and terseen of the dinosaurs that had been any jaw {instead of the powe rful two in minated ating beasts of ¢ grass the of muzzles rounded HB last dinosaur had been slain. The people of Chicago crept out into the sunshine from the cellars In which th had ‘been living for weeks and gazed, amazed and s it the débris o skys ‘ ray pers ina fact species be J ries, and wandered aimlessly through ruined disheveled parks and boulevards The soldiers and the artillery, brought from far away army posts to do battle with the antediluvian upon mor the city north, had departed. The torpedo boat destroyers tthe to dcgovernment by sent boats submarine and is wh i swarmed stroy the monster ichthyosat Lake Michigan, had returned, through the lakes and the Welland canal, to the Atlanth seaboard The of public dynamite corps, organized by t 1@ committee safety, had been disbanded % TERRORIZED i a combat been forced upon 3, a Starlling Reports About people we Chicago Jesis at Awful Warnings. The first warnings of the approach of the hordes of antediluvian monsters were treated with levity by press and public. A Chicago newspaper one morning in May printed the following dispatch "DULUTH, Minn., May 1.-Capt. Scott of the whale back No. 13 of the Rockefeller ore carrying fleet reports that sixty miles from Duluth he sighted a sea serpent. The mdénster had a huge alligator shaped head eight feet long, with eyes as big as the head of a barrel. Only thirteen feet of its neck could be scen above the surface of the water. The first mate and the engineer saw the sea serpent and vouch for the correctness of Cap a Startling Dispatch from NorthWest. The newspaper printed the dispatch with facetious headlines, and) the funny editors wrote jJeering paragraphs, asking Capt. Scott what particular brand of grog he served on board his ship, A few days later another Chicago newspaper printed the following: "WINNIPEG, May 4.-A dispatch from Sifton, in Worthwest Manitoba province, brings an extraordinary story, told there by Lieut. Chivers of the Canadian northwest mounted police, who has just returned from Red Deer Point, in Lake Winnipegosis. Lieut. Chivers reports that two weeks ago he saw flying in the air a huge, batlike bird, whose wings stretched fully elghty feet from tip to tip. Its head was fully five feet long, with a pelicanlike bill, Two days later Lieut. Chivers and his escort distinctly saw six of these monsters flying in the air. Trappers up and down Lake Winnipegosis are coming into Sifton by the score, fearing destruction from the huge, batlike birds, Great excitement prevails here.' Terror and Panic in Canada. There were more facetious paragraphs in the newspapers, and in a day or so the public forgot all about the batlike birds seen flying over Lake Winnipegosis. Then came a more disquieting dispatch from far Northern Ontario province, on the Canadian Pacific, to the following effect: " WAHNAPITAC, May 6.-John Anderson, a prominent and prosperous farmér living south of Lake Wahnapitac, arrived here with his family and a few household goods in a wagon. Anderson fled from his farm last Tuesday in terror after seeing a huge: monster 120 feet long prowling around his cattle yard. The beast had a head and neck like a snake Ita body, eighteen feet thick, was covered with scales. Its fore legs were shorter than Its hind legs, and it had a tall forty feet long, grusted with scales. The monster demolished Anderson's barn with one sweep of its Monsters. The story from Wahnapitac seemed so extraordinary that the general manager of the Canadian Pacific made inquiries The response was. Startling. From every station agent along the line in Northern Ontarlo } il province came the new that strange ge monsters were ravaging the whole country north of the railroad Agents at Turnbull, Eureka Lake, Pogamasing, Larechwood, Sudbury, Warren, and Verner sent the same reports, and in two days the Canadian Pacifie trains were filled with refugees fleeing from the terror that had come down from the woods of the north in such hideous shape The n mapers could no longer jeer at strange news coming from far northern parts, newspaper sent reliable reporters to Winnipeg Vahnapltae to get special page stories from the the One and ter- ror stricken trappers and farmers Another man was sent to Duluth to get the stories told by lake men who arrive In that port every day to tell of seeing sea serpents and other strange amphibian beasts swimming in Lake Michigan. These stories were printed in page articles In the Chicago newspapers and illustrated with pictures of the strange, huge beasts drawn from excited descriptions x ri 4 Explained by the Professor. Prof. Dryasdust of the University of Chicago studled the descriptipns carefully... The sea serpent seen by Capt. Scott in Lake Superior, he said, was nothing more nor less than the ichthyosaurus of antediluvian e OL & BATHERS mighty tall. Anderson gathered a few goods and his family Into a on and drove his frightened horses on a run into town Hundreds of farmers are coming into Wahnapltac in terror. They report that the huge beasts are roaming the forests by scores The excitement is jntense. The population of the whole country is fleeing southward.' iz x City Devastated and Left in Ruins. Chicago was again at peace after five weeks' combat with the most terrifying enemy that ever threatened the destruction of mankind The combat had cost thousands of lives and left the city practically in ruins. Huge skyscrapers had been crushed by mighty blows from monster dinosauria, the towering hulks of which reached to tenth stories Great factories had been crushed under the weight of pterodactyli; parks had been ruined; railways had been torn up; the Chicago river was choked with the débris of torn and twisted bridges and the battered hulks of big lake steamers, lumber schooners, grain barges, dredges, and tugs, all destroyed by monster Ichthyosauria which swarmed in the waters of Lake Michigan Never in 6,000 vears of history had so terrifying & Tyrannosaurus FLEEING * - Ue vo rs = oo * pegosis were strangely like the pterodactyli, while the monsters ravaging the forests of Northern Ontario were the dinosaurla Prof. Dryasdust, in a_ signed article, discussed learnedly the peculiarities of these monsters of prehistoric ages, and declared that they had been extinct for 11,000,000 years, His opinion was verified by Prof, Oldashills of the University of Michigan and by Prof. Longago of the University of Pennsylvania, a Newspazers a Become Less Filtppant. The Chleago newspapers no longer discussed the stories from the north flippantly. The monsters which the Canadian farmérs were seeing seemed preposterous, impossible-but the terror of the people was genuiné, There was no gainsaying that fact, All over southern Canada the people were fleeing by tens of thousands, The railroad abandoned its frelght traffic It made no attempt to sell tickets or to collect fares Every locomotive, every passenger, freight, stock, and fiat car the company could find was impressed into service in order to carry away the terror stricken populaThe panic, however, did not reach:Chicago. The dally newpapers printed pages of the strange news from the north to the exclusion of all other news, and every line was eagerly read, but business went on as usual. The board of trade and the stock exchange held their daily sessions. State street was as full of shoppers as ever, Big factories were working as usual. No cone thought of his own danger while reading of the awesome évents transpiring in the far north s a Sea Serpent Saw Tug First. Then suddenly came the awakening. A tug chartered by an enterprising newspaper had started for Lake Superior with a full corps of reporters, artists, and photographers In an endeavor to sight the sea serpent and obtain accurate pictures and descriptions, It happened, however, that the tug did not find the sea serpent. The sea serpent found the tug first. Late the afternoon, while lounging tdly along the boiling, foaming FROM artists and rail, there upheaval of the DIVERSEY reporter came waters BEACH. were sudden elose to the boat A huge bulk appeared In the water bow of the 1 long, snakelike neck raised a great head, with staring eyes, far above the side of the tug. The newspaper men gave one affrighted yell as the monster swayed its head. with its ferocious jaws, from side to over the deck Then, with a sweep of its powerful tail against the side of the tug, it disappeared beneath the surface of the water The blow smashed propeller and steering gear and stove In the stern ing which pu out planking, letting |} in i Nood of wat er fires under the boilers and left the little vessel drifting helplessly and slowly sinking Escape as the story the destruction of a capped in 8 Terrors Greater still ponderous body. was and the greater ¥ Were terrors the battle was on in Store. were awaiting the People Looked for Giant Bats. peo- the - street from curb to People The were crowds crushed In and Long. Fled in Terror. the streets to terrible be amiably dinosaur, as he appeared disposed toward but nothing man happened Pterodact Broke for sometimes a Down The end, however, trophe, The high, ma and trembled under th monsters and at last, to the eastward, and, toppled into space, eda and the dinosaur, an to the pavement near That ended the s were Killed by the fal yet quivering in sh Vulturelike pterodacty to swoop down and the Bridges. dinosaur in CURIOUS CROWDS WATCHING GIGANTIC BEASTS. the Plesiosaurus Some Triceratops ' present day, " Were except Of these new. vi did not make their a at all. Among them S4urus and the ich sters most repellant more repellant still 4 Saur brontosaurus, 0 during the jurassic q tiles, some 8,600,000 Docile. that Instead of one Away. When the ghastly feasting and gorging was over the huge bird-beasts again took wing and circled over the city, their movements more cumbersome and lazy than before. One by one they settled down on the cornices of the skyscrapers in the loop dis trict. Three of them perched on the First National Bank building, two on the Tribune bullding, a half a dozen on the postoffice, while others settled down upon the Monadnock, the Marquette the Republic, and other bulidings. There they remained all carrion But while the due on the lake front w devastation and mort in Lincoln park. The the city on that men rous. species, and tl Thelr numbers were slimy, horrid lookin which swarmed into t Fle stre easily a Combat & Then its combat, then with tremendous sw rained crashing blows upor derous roars of mingled a through the city as the gi life and death struggle tire Lake Front park, fre row, between the Illinois 4 tvenue, and as the monst they tore great chasms shed trees and fount ducts, and smashed Tilin cars. The Logan monim ments by one sweeping b s The struggle was easily to be seen that would be more than a trunklike legs of the and weaker Several huge monster seemed t feated upon the eartl gather renewed streng to its feet to renew t Finally, at the corn| son street, the dinosaui deavored to escape. climbing the side of smashing the window square yards of briek cross sections of the st gave the monster brut higher and higher, sm: brickwork from the-sj with mighty strides t The tyranndéosaurus wal made a last frantic eff the top of the tower lowed and the combat ground, while thousan the fascination of ter| would end trampled Stockyards Scene of Terror. s dinosaur, unequal Nor did the buildings fhe entire fronts of the Fine Arts bullding were hotel was completely w filled with débris of brick and broken plate glass. buried in the ruins of t The horror of it all of the awful combat masses of humanity whl tween the two prehiste milllon years of time ha were watching the ter enacted before man in Back and forth acraq sters strugeléd and wh mouths of each in torre a hydrant and filled th sluggish streams. Nott ance of Michigan avent dG@bris of demolished bul bodies of spectators, ca meshes of the battling the structure crunched beneath the welght of the beast asdf bullt-of cardboard and matches. whatever it was, plunged into the Chicago river with Meantime a different kind of panic was in progss in the stockyards district, where 50,000 cattle, from 10,000 to 15,000 75.000 hogs. 25,000 sheep, and horses were in the pens waiting Slaughter or shipment. The cattle and horses had caught sight of the monster bird-beasts, and frightened bellowings, and screamings, and neighihgs arose from the stockyards district which filled the whole city. Nothing so terrirying as the dull, wild, hopeless roar of frightened animals was ever before heard in the city, and its horrors served to increase the panic of the people, ilready trembling in fear of their own lives. By this time-it was noon-tfully fifty of the bird-beasts were flying over the stockyards, clearly drawn there by hunger. Men who, from their places of hiding, could observe the district, described afterwards the scene which followed First a huge monster, after cireling over the stock pens for some time, swooped suddenly to the ground and with one blow of its wines knocked a horse senseless, Then attacking It with its terrible jaws, it began to tear off and swallow great chunks of the still quivering flesh. Others of the bird-beasts quickly followed the example, and for an hour or more there was to be heard the terrifying roar of anguish from frightened horses and cattle and the shrill, discordant, unearthly screams of the strange rhonsters at their feeding Themselves, The the Hundreds Buri The great jaws were six or seven feet long and armed with formidable teeth. The body Was shaped like that of a bird, although as big as that of a horse From the body, extending forty to sixty feet on each side, were broad, membranous wings. The creature's legs were ridiculously out of proportion to the rest o its body, The city was thrown into a state of indescribable panic by the appearance of the strange monsters flying In the alr. The tops of the high bulldings were quickly emptied of the throngs of persons who only an hour before had been so eager to catch a glimpse of the creatures The streets were cleared as if by magic and !n an incredibly short time were deserted. Every man, woman, and child In the elty had hurriedly sought for shelter in cellars and basements, in houses and big buildings. Everywhere doors and windows were barrieadéd to ward off a possible attack from the great winged monsters which were lazily circling over the elty, like birds of evil omen No one knew for certain whether these unheard of beasts of the air would attack human beings or not but no one took any chances Gorged DESTRUCTIG spectators Lake The people poured Into the streets. Tall office buildings were deserted, factories shut down, stores 1 Nobody wanted to work, or to buy, or to sell. Everybody wanted to be in the open air to catch the first glimpse of the huge, batlike birds which had terrorized the north, and which were lazily winging their toward Chicago. The streets were so choked With people that all traffl© was suspended, and the @lectric and cable cars were unable to force a way through the crowds Never had Chicago witnessed so exciting a day. gust before noon a ery arose from the hundreds of persons who had been lucky enough to secure places of vantage on the tops of tall buildings. Far to the north, hovering above Evanston, could seen a half a dozen huge "birds" swooping In broad circles over the town. The great "birds" came nearer and nearer. Although their movements seemed cumbrous and slow, yet they really were flying with almost incredible speed As they came nearer to Chicago their great, batllke wings beating the air were plainly discernible; but even more terrifying were the huge heads and terrible jaws of the strange creatures. The head Was shaped like that of a monster pelican & its witnessed had taken the alarm northward springs its speed wa s handi- ¥ that It would be overtaken quickly wild bellow of rage such as the ears never heard the tyrannotal L I sad man the fleeing dinosaur diplosaurus overto ok locus and with a mighty spring leaped upon ts back Its powerful jaws closed down on the columnar neck of the dinosaur and & a as Wings 40 to 60 Feet befor A Michigan by a huge and unheard of monster did not ereate so much of a sensation in Chicago as its authors had anticipated, for Chicago had even greater sensations of its own within its own observation. On same morning that the story of the destruction the tug was printed a telephone message from Racine reported that half a dozen monster, batlike birds, with wingsespreading nearly 100 feet across, had been flying over that town on their way southward, news spread from mouth to mouth as a prairie spreads across the western plains The monsters are coming!" "The monsters are coming!" were excited cries heard on every side a by stantly tug never to take plat The dinosaur diplodocus mighty in moving was and Art institute; but toward the Seemed Miraculous. of 1 mar civilizeil about Fortunately a Goodrich line steamer was near at hand, and the newspaper party was rescued before the tug sank to the bottom of the lake The steamer car ried the reporters and artists to Mackinac, The nex morning the papers contained a yivid story, and the people of Chicago awoke to the realization of the fact at least one of the monsters Was in Lake MichiBut Starts a Fight. Every ne who saw the eigantic beast ind noted its ponderous fram and its powerful jaws with their double rows of wk ked teeth, realized dinosaur of the enemy an it was. that at once such battle a that and park in the diplodocus from the Avenue. and tyrannosaurus the between battle The 4 0 clock the dinosaur diplodecus took place about avenue Jn Michigan began and afternoon in the Annex The dinosaur diplonear the Auditorium tall of the off the tops eating been had docus k and a creat crowd of peopl point filling every to the vicinity had been drawn um and the Annex, the building Studebaker the and theater, Congress with black was Bxchange tnilway the while and treops to battle with the invading hordes of supposedly prehistoric beasts on the lake and in the streets oi the city. Terrifying scenes in the stoeckyards when 25,000 cattle, sheep, and hogs are eaten by pterodactyli. Art institute destroyed and people drive nto refuge in cellars. demolished 2 on Michigan in Michigan avenue in the afternoon of the first day's BATTLING MONSTERS DESTROY MONTGOMERY BUILDING. WARD Itke the present day short, slabsided bod legs. suggesting the brute, feeding on sof {tx time in the water tation the brontosay animals, or even ea Lincoln park that fir Another particu vaded the Lincoln mirabilis This , pz crawled out of the while its lizardlike fifty to sixty feet. Height, 50 UZly, Then there was quarreleaame b |